The Separation between State and Religion

In time we will realize that Democracy is the entitlement of individuals to every right that was in its times alloted to kings. The right to speak and decide, to be treated with decency, to serve and be served by people in a State of “love” that is, to serve with one’s work for the development of ‘life’. To belong to the Kingdom of Human Beings without racial, national, social or academic separations. To love and be loved. To die at the service of the whole and be honored in one’s death, for one’s life and work was legitimately valued. To be graceful and grateful. To have the pride and the humility of being One with the Universe, One with every realm of Existence, One with every living and deceased soul. To treat with dignity and be treated with dignity for One is dignified together with All others and Life itself. To walk the path of compassion, not in the sorrow of guilt but in the pride of being. To take responsability for one’s mistakes and sufferings and stand up again and again like a hero and a heroine and face the struggle that is put at one’s feet and in one’s hands. Millions of people, millions and millions of people might take many generations to realize the consciousness of our humaneness but there is no other dignified path for the human being.

The “work” as I conceive it is psychological and political. Psychology is the connection between the different dimensions within one’s self and Politics is the actualization of that consciousness in our practical lives. Religion is the ceremony that binds the connectedness between the individual and the Universe. The separation between religion, politics and science, the arts and sports is, in the sphere of the social, the reflection of the schizophrenia within the individual and the masses. The dialogue between individuality and the "human" belongs to consciousness. The tendency to develop cults resides in the shortcomings we’are finding in life as it is structured today. “Life” has become the private property of a few priviledged who cannot profit from it because as soon as it is appropriated it stops to be “life” or “life-giving”.

We are all the victims of our own invention and each one is called upon to find solutions. The only problem is believing our selves incapable of finding them. We are now free to use all Systems of knowledge objectively, sharing them without imposing our will on each other. To become objective about our lives means to understand that the institutions that govern its experience are critically important. That we are one with the governments, one with the religious activities that mark its pace, that the arena’s in which we move our bodies and the laboratories in which we explore our possibilities are ALL part and parcel of our own personal responsibility. That WE ARE ONE WITH EACH OTHER AND EVERYTHING AROUND US and acknowledge for ourselves a bond of love in conscious responsibility. That we human beings know ourselves part of each other and are willing and able to act on our behalf for the benefit of each and every individual. That we no longer allow governments, industries, universities or any other institution to run along unchecked by the objective principles of humaneness. That we do not allow gurus to abuse their power or governors to steal the taxes and use them to their personal advantage in detriment of the whole. That we do not allow abuse from anyone anywhere because life is too beautiful to do so and that we are willing to stop the rampant crime with the necessary compassion Conscious knowledge is every individual's right. Conscious action is every individual's duty.

Saturday 18 September 2010

Showers of colored light!


I would like to share a little of why I believe stained glass can be included in objective art and how I am working with glass today.

It’s my impression that stained glass in
the great cathedrals of the world is meant to allow for light to come inside in a very particular way. Traditionally the windows are not meant to project light from inside out but from outside in or at least churches don’t light themselves up with enough power to project the colour of their stained glass windows to the outside during the night which would be possible and beautiful.

If the Cathedrals are “conscious works of Art” and are models of man, what they are talking about is not the external aspects of the human being but the internal aspects. The stained glass windows are designed to bring light inside and show what it is like in there. The traditional “cross” structure of churches has in itself tremendous symbolic meaning in most cultures and if we take only Gurdjieff’s System’s point of view of the cross section of “being”and “state” then the whole universe is in fact represented by the two lines and their relationship to each other.

What I believe is possible with glass today is to place it in the Public Squares of all cities as a symbol of the conquest of individuality and the projection of our individual inner light in the public, social, communal sphere. I dream with sculptures of glass in the city and light in colours projected on walls, avenues, buildings, to provide us with a source of impressions as rich as that of the nature that we’ve been destroying. The healing aspects of colour and light are great. I dream of places where one can get showers of green to heal the “etheric” (Steiner) or “instinctive” (Gurdjieff) aspect of one’s organs and showers of red and blue and all colours combined too! My research in all of this is still incipient but I believe it is a source of life that I would be happy to share here as I go along, I’ve only a handful of sculptures and some lamps so far but I’ll be glad to share that work here too.

Should this not be objective art as you’ve
conceived it M., please feel free to delete it. Thank you for the opportunity to expand on this research that can be done here or elsewhere but what inspired actually working on it more deeply, was being here.

May the light of flowers greet each of your days!
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